"I had a No. 1 priority and that was to come to Nashville to build houses!" he said on Sunday Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.

"I assumed, naturally, I was going to die very quickly," Carter told the congregation on Sunday Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at PEOPLE, which he first joined in 2015.

U.S. stock markets will be closed today in observance of a national day of mourning and a state funeral to honor President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday, December 29, at the age of 100.